Shallow Relationship With Your Heart? OUCH! (+ audio gift at the end)

Why do we demand of the ego what the ego cannot know and cannot give us?

Answers to the big questions of life are found when our minds settle down like the particles in a snow globe, and when we connect with the depth of our hearts.

When you dip below the surface, beneath the known, endless loop thinking we all do, a different way of knowing and perceiving has a chance of getting through to you.

At those times, it seems that answers come from another level of consciousness — during moments when we’re in flow — immersed in nature, reading, writing, music, a bike ride, building shelves, or whatever your thing is.

Do you notice that when you need to solve that big personal issue right now, it’s most elusive?

Pressure does not work when a deep emotional process or pattern rolls through you.

It’s not a thing to fix.

You are not a problem to fix.

You are not a thing to fix.

It’s a process, and process is its own boss.

You will not rush that butterfly’s movement out of the cocoon.

It isn’t as easy as recognizing that you are in the grip of your ego, that it is triggered and running the show.

Recognizing alone doesn’t get you free of it, but it’s a beginning.

Paying attention and staying with it – not running – helps.

Like slowing down and taking a few deep breaths until you feel settled.

Like checking in with your body to notice what’s showing up for you about the topic at hand, the emotions in the moment, your mood — whatever is going on. That thing that is difficult.

And yes, that’s Simon our cat at the end of the audio. Those who have been on calls with me know that my boy loves being around humans. And though I don’t have a studio, I do have a big hunk of a fancy mic.